Video learning is becoming an increasingly important part of contemporary education. In the decade there has been an increase of many and diverse forms of research efforts on video learning. This paper focuses on the video learning research of the last years based on 166 peerreviewed published academic papers. A categorization is then derived from these papers, delineating some basic characteri...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer a great opportunity for learners to enjoy learning despite their location or timing. Nevertheless, motives vary between each student and another. In this workshop paper, we are delighted to open discussions on why undergraduates may enroll in their university’s MOOCs? Are they looking for ECTS points? Or do they want to build a stronger background in th...

schools matter. This statement is a truism to most. However, it must be followed by a statement of why schools matter, especially in light of the current debate surrounding the quality of American public education. Working from the seemingly simple belief that schools matter, assumptions will be made and policies will follow them on how to improve the quality of public schools. If there is no s...

This is a position paper in which I argue that massive open online programming courses can benefit by the application of automated assessment of programming assignments. I gathered success factors and identified concerns related to automatic assessment through the analysis of experiences other researchers have reported when designing and using automated assessment of programming assignments and...

MOOCs can bring together thousands of students with different background in the same course. This fact presents a good opportunity for instructors to design and enact collaborative activities that may involve groups. However, MOOCs present some drawbacks that can hinder the completion of this kind of activities such as the high drop-out rates, the self-paced character or the resistance of the s...

This paper commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Platt Report in the United Kingdom and traces the history of parental hospital visiting in relation to its recommendation that, 'Parents should be allowed to visit whenever they can, and to help as much as possible with the care of the child' (Ministry of Health, 1959: 38). It tracks how this goal was achieved and identifies how parents moved ...

We describe our participation in the TREC 2003 Question Answering, Robust, and Web tracks. We provide a detailed account of the ideas underlying our approaches to these tasks, report on our results, and give a summary of our findings so far.

Lecture videos are the major components in MOOCs. It is common for MOOC analytics researchers to model video behaviors in order to identify at-risk students. Much of the work emphasized prediction. However, we have little empirical understanding about these video interactions, especially at the click-level. For example, what kind of video interactions may indicate a student has experienced diff...

The urgent need for an effective monitoring scheme for grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) populations led us to investigate the effort required to detect changes in populations of low-density dispersed animals, using sign (mainly scats and tracks) they leave on trails. We surveyed trails in Glacier National Park for bear tracks and scats during five consecutive years. Using these data, we modeled the ...

An attempt of Russian universities to move forward to the leading positions in the world rankings has resulted in some initiatives to enhance their activities on the market of education services. Under these conditions, foreign language proficiency is no longer a luxury and it is becoming an important tool to implement goals of university development. In this regard, new methods and techniques ...